Why now?

What a lame-assed newspaper we have. Seriously. Don't you just love how they pronounce that things are not news and not worthy of their snooty interest? They are, oh, so above this stuff.

Case in point. The City Attorney decided, for some apparently unknown reason, to change the ballots this last election with very little notice to the public. Now I'm not saying Dave Gliko necessarily had some nefarious plan in mind, but Stuart Lewin, a losing candidate, is ticked off.

So, the Tribune prints an editorial today. "Nope, nothing here. No story. Time to mooooove on." Long time readers might recall that they declared the same about Mayor Gray's sweetheart land deal with MacKenzie River Pizza on the river bank or, for that matter, about Monica Lewinski (yup, no story there...just a Presidential Impeachment!)

I don't know, you'd think a real journalist might have a few questions before they blithely go skipping on to the next story about racist hurricanes or Indian powwows or Lewis and Clark or some such. You know, like: "Why now? Why did you change ballots now, Mr. Gliko? You implied the County Attorney told you to do it, but Ms. Diekhans says she didn't. Did she? Why didn't you call us? We would have put a big story in the paper about the new ballots? But why now, Mr. Gliko? And why did you presume to make this decision, Mr. Gliko? Isn't this something the elected City Commission should have considered?"

Hey, where are the comics? Let's move on.